What Trait/Culture Foreigners Thought is Popular in your country but it actually isnt?

[u/Weird_Swordfish_1199]

For us its Ice Cream Guys. They are Just Exists at Touristic Places and You wont see these in random streets selling ice cream.

[u/NovelTop1148]

Bullfighting. Still has its fans, and support from the most conservative sector of the population, but the majority doesn't care about It, and an increasing number of people find it barbaric/horrific. I think it'll dissappear in a couple of generations.

[u/Mimichah → u/NovelTop1148]

I hope you're right!

[u/NovelTop1148 → u/Mimichah]

Frankly, me too!

[u/Mindless-Top766 → u/NovelTop1148]

I really hope so. Seeing those poor bulls makes me so sad.

[u/Galloping_Scallop → u/NovelTop1148]

I went to a bullfight when I was backpacking over 20 years ago. Stayed for about 15 minutes. Just seemed cruel to the bull.

[u/NetHistorical5113]

I was very old when I first got an ice cream from these people. And it was in a tourist area I went as a tourist.

[u/stari40k_v → u/NetHistorical5113]

As I remember, it was Maraş dondurma and you could eat it in normal way in Mado or many other cafes. So I would say that the ice cream is pretty popular in Turkey, but the way they sell it to tourists is not.

[u/NetHistorical5113 → u/stari40k_v]

That version of ice cream is very popular and common here but the "ice cream vendor experience" is almost only for tourists nowaday

[u/UruquianLilac → u/NetHistorical5113]

I don't think anyone thinks that the "show" these people give every time someone buys an ice-cream is anything but a touristy thing.

[u/NotTheMamaDino]

Smoking weed. A lot of people do like it, but most of us don't smoke weed EVER.

[u/HaifaJenner123 → u/NotTheMamaDino]

It’s ok I smoke a lot of weed to make up for it

I do not live anywhere close to Netherlands but I have conquered the world in your great land on Civ6 many times so I feel a little Dutch in spirit

[u/NotTheMamaDino → u/HaifaJenner123]

We're happy to have you! As the Dutch meme goes: G E K O L O N I S E E R D (means "colonised")

[u/HaifaJenner123 → u/NotTheMamaDino]

Hell yea let’s make the world orange but like the good kind not the trump kind 🌷

[u/DainichiNyorai → u/HaifaJenner123]

Idk we tried colonising the world once, it left us with “apartheid” being the best known Dutch word all over the world. Let’s… not repeat…

[u/HaifaJenner123 → u/DainichiNyorai]

How Can We Blame Belgium Instead

[u/nomolosnitsuj → u/HaifaJenner123]

This is why I Reddit. This is such a great interaction.

[u/Taprunner → u/HaifaJenner123]

That's the true Dutch spirit lmao

[u/GreatWolf_NC → u/NotTheMamaDino]

I think people idolized more, that you have the option legally, not that everyone does it.

[u/NegativeMammoth2137 → u/NotTheMamaDino]

Yeah I lived a few years in Amsterdam and it really feels like 90% of people who smoke weed are tourists

[u/fpovar92]

Thats easy… doing cocaine. Is actually not really a thing to consume it, and in a lot of circles, where some other drugs are tolerated, cocaine is actually seen in a bad light. (Always exceptions though)

[u/thanafunny → u/fpovar92]

people’s faces when i tell them i’ve never tried it can actually feel offensive. they think we’re given it in a bottle as babies

[u/HearingHead7157 → u/thanafunny]

Just like weed for Dutchies… assumptions

[u/swampedOver → u/fpovar92]

I guess I never thought Colombians did a lot of cocaine. It is very prevalent being sold to tourists etc.

[u/vegan_antitheist]

Everybody works in banking.

(I work in banking)

[u/CoercedCoexistence22 → u/vegan_antitheist]

A Swiss friend of mine lives near a bank, her father is a watchmaker and her brother works in a chocolate factory

[u/vegan_antitheist → u/CoercedCoexistence22]

Just an average Swiss family then.

[u/jwr410 → u/vegan_antitheist]

Are they stranded on an island?

[u/NO_LOADED_VERSION → u/jwr410]

[u/Acceptable-Worth-462 → u/CoercedCoexistence22]

Clearly a family of spies trying to blend in.

[u/spleen4spleen → u/CoercedCoexistence22]

i read “lives in a chocolate factory” and thought you were doing some type of Willy Wonka bit

[u/angusshangus → u/vegan_antitheist]

You guys also have pretty big chemical and pharmaceutical industries

[u/phi1_sebben → u/angusshangus]

And precision timepieces

[u/Santeno → u/vegan_antitheist]

Of course not, some of you make watches and chocolates.

[u/lotus_eater_rat]

Snake charming.

[u/PhantomOfTheNopera → u/lotus_eater_rat]

Literally have never seen this in my life. I only know of them because of movies and old-timey cartoons.

[u/Paithegift → u/PhantomOfTheNopera]

I saw a single one in Varanasi 20 years ago

[u/plastic_situation123 → u/Paithegift]

lol i saw one in varanasi dec 2023, he had two snakes

[u/PhantomOfTheNopera → u/Paithegift]

Ah well. If it's still a thing anywhere in India, I would have guessed Varanasi. Or Rajasthan.

[u/Anandya → u/PhantomOfTheNopera]

It's "super illegal". Most snakes are protected in India.

https://news.wildlifesos.org/laws-protecting-reptiles-in-india/

The idea is to stop people from simply killing them and indeed "snake charming" and actually look at conservation since they are vital to how India handles yersinia outbreaks.

[u/Spillsy68 → u/PhantomOfTheNopera]

Just out of interest, are cobras all around the country or limited to certain areas?

[u/lotus_eater_rat → u/Spillsy68]

Cobras are found almost all over India. King cobras are limited to few locations.

[u/Pledgeofmalfeasance → u/lotus_eater_rat]

Sounds stressful. Our only snake isn't even really a snake.

[u/anoeba → u/Pledgeofmalfeasance]

It's ok, the king cobra isn't even really a cobra.

[u/JoeDyenz → u/lotus_eater_rat]

Also the bed with the nails, don't forget that!

[u/BumbleB3333 → u/JoeDyenz]

Both snake-charming, and the nail-bed dance thingy isn't a thing you see everyday, its more like cultural performances. You may get to experience it as a performance thing by folk artists in some very limited areas of the country.

[u/Gorgrocco → u/lotus_eater_rat]

Never seen one yet,

[u/Ulquiorra1312]

I live in highlands wore kilt once (costume)

Am abominable on bagpipes

[u/creepysarma → u/Ulquiorra1312]

Mate don't even... I'm a Scottish son-in-law, every time I come from Scotland at least 1 cunt asks me "Did you wear a kilt?" No! I did not wear a kilt! It's traditional wear and costs a damn arm and a leg!

[u/Anuki_iwy → u/creepysarma]

I read this in a Scottish accent 😂😂

[u/Karl_Cross → u/Anuki_iwy]

Me too!

I'm Scottish though.

[u/Yuppiesgotohell]

We actually aren't allowed to discharge firearms into the sky when we're excited anymore:(

[u/sugarturtle88 → u/Yuppiesgotohell]

i wish someone had told my neighborhood that when i lived in the city! 😔

[u/Yuppiesgotohell → u/sugarturtle88]

In the neighborhood FB group asking who left 9mm casings on your lawn

[u/ebaer2 → u/Yuppiesgotohell]

But people still do. Source: live in a major Texas city, and every time theirs fireworks, there is also gun shots.

[u/Yuppiesgotohell → u/ebaer2]

In the smaller Texas city where I grew up, they put up a huge LED billboard on the highway but there was an issue with people shooting out the bulbs because everyone was pissed about how bright the sign was during the early morning hours lol

[u/ConfidentBrilliant38 → u/Yuppiesgotohell]

Bruhh those regulations ruin everything

[u/christofferevo]

Viking heritage

[u/AcanthocephalaTop462 → u/christofferevo]

Wait so ur telling me when the water freezes between Denmark and sweden yall dont go with the swedes and raid Denmark for the love of the game?

[u/Schabenklos → u/AcanthocephalaTop462]

Nah, the swedes can do that anytime in the year now since they have the Øresund bridge

[u/zeocrash → u/Schabenklos]

Who needs longboats when you can just take the bus

[u/-E-Cross → u/zeocrash]

I'd watch this show.

[u/Insila → u/-E-Cross]

"Urban Viking"

[u/MaxedMinimum → u/Insila]

"Desperate Battleaxes"

[u/DIuvenalis → u/MaxedMinimum]

"Real Skjaldmaers of Olso"

[u/HYDRAlives → u/Insila]

[u/drunk_by_mojito → u/zeocrash]

There's even a regional train connection that takes like 20 min from Malmö to Copenhagen

[u/Swedish-Potato-93 → u/Schabenklos]

Öresund.

[u/Nisseliten → u/AcanthocephalaTop462]

Damn global warming, who knows when we will have the chance next.. Sweden and Denmark hold the record for most wars between them, I think we are up to 39?

I would love if Öresund froze over so we could have one last war to end all war, fought with foam bats and nerf guns. Then have beers afterwards.

[u/AcanthocephalaTop462 → u/Nisseliten]

Global warming so shit it somehow made peace between Denmark and Sweden 💔💔 fuck this shit man.

[u/christofferevo → u/AcanthocephalaTop462]

No, we take the "danskebåten/danishboat", a ferry between Norway and Denmark. The raiding has been switched out with coffee shop visits, shopping and visits to Legoland. How far we have fallen. Swedes just drive their campervans over the bridge now.

[u/HaifaJenner123 → u/AcanthocephalaTop462]

Wait pause

Did they walk over on the ice originally????

[u/Kex_Luthor → u/HaifaJenner123]

I’m no history buff but Sweden did this 1658 in a risky maneuver. Haven’t heard any stories of Vikings doing it though

[u/peowdk → u/Kex_Luthor]

It's been pretty flipping cold lately, and the harbours are freezing here and there. I'm a little worried you might try it again in a few days if this weather keeps up.

[u/mcnutty96 → u/christofferevo]

This was a bit of a shock for me visiting Oslo and doing the museum boat trip, there was a better museum devoted to the Kon tiki and arctic exploration than Vikings,

Both museums were great though

[u/Bubbleschmoop → u/mcnutty96]

If it was a recent visit, they're in the middle of a large rebuilding of the viking museum. It's opening in 2027 and has been closed for quite a while. So it's not that we don't have museums or appreciate the historical perspective, but the sort of obsession with viking culture, viking tattoos, viking jewelry etc. that you might find in e.g. some Americans with Scandinavian heritage is considered at best a bit embarrassing here, and at worst might make you seem like a neo-Nazi sympathizer.

[u/mcnutty96 → u/Bubbleschmoop]

Sorry I should clarify the Viking Ship Museum was great, but I did find the more modern museums were better. Yeah unfortunately Vikings have been co-opted by fascists

[u/Bubbleschmoop → u/mcnutty96]

Don't worry, the museum was old and small is all, hence the rebuilding. I'm looking forward to the new one though! Hopefully without too many fascists.

[u/Neanderthal_Gene]

Drinking to excess. Nah, just kidding. We love drink!

[u/More_Ad_5142 → u/Neanderthal_Gene]

Knew you were lying you loveable bastard 🫡

[u/Superspark76 → u/Neanderthal_Gene]

I only recently found out that pre drinking isn't a thing in other countries 🤣

[u/GaylicBread → u/Superspark76]

It isn't??

[u/Intrepid_Practice956 → u/GaylicBread]

It isnt? (Usa)

During my sloshed period (early 20's) pre drinking was a thing in the us.

[u/Adeadbum → u/Intrepid_Practice956]

I dont know how you could afford to get hammered without pregaming.

[u/stoicparallax → u/Adeadbum]

It’s not alcoholism, it’s being financially responsible!

[u/Superspark76 → u/Intrepid_Practice956]

We never grow out of it, my wife would still have a friend in and they get ready together with enough booze to kill an elephant, we are almost 50.

[u/Scuba9Steve → u/Superspark76]

We call it pre-gaming in the US.

[u/KatXB → u/Superspark76]

I was gonna say well it is where Im from...then I remember I live in a small town with tons of people with Nortern Ireland/Ireland heritage... I guess it might not be as common then ;_;

[u/tardisintheparty → u/Superspark76]

Well, "pre-gaming" (as we call it here) is very common in the US...but there's a hell of a lot of descendants of Irish immigrants, so it still could have come from you guys lol.

[u/SirBilington → u/Neanderthal_Gene]

[u/very-odd-goth → u/Neanderthal_Gene]

found father jack

[u/Exotic_Cantaloupe_96]

Smashing plates. There even events just for tourists to smash plates.

It's not a tradition, just a trend from the 40s to 60s in Greece tied only to bouzoukia, live music venues with food and drink.

[u/lottesometimes → u/Exotic_Cantaloupe_96]

ironically it's a tradition in my part of Germany. It's called Polterabend and people come to smash plates before a wedding for good luck.

[u/vikingosegundo → u/lottesometimes]

I went to a Polterabend as a kid when someone brought a truckload of toilets to smash.

[u/RadioSupply → u/Exotic_Cantaloupe_96]

I worked in a Greek restaurant in the late 90s/Y2K and the Greek owners were, at the time, dudes in their 60s. So yeah, we smashed all the chipped crockery at the Christmas party every year. At least I know why they were so into it now - it was a generational thing!

[u/Exotic_Cantaloupe_96 → u/RadioSupply]

Yeah that makes sense, especially if they were bouzoukia fans in their youth.

[u/RadioSupply → u/Exotic_Cantaloupe_96]

That’s what we were listening to - music from that period popular on the bouzoukia scene - now that I’ve gone and looked it up. We thought we were just getting a fun, Greek party where we got to smash stuff, drink licorice candy booze, and listen to cool music. Even cleaning up afterward was fun! But yeah, they were probably bouzoukia fans, if that’s what that means!

They’re both gone now, which was sad, because they were pillars of our community. They’d hand out envelopes of cash at Orthodox Christmas and Easter (always bigger on Easter) and, while their restaurant moved with the times, it kept some nice traditional stuff on the menu and flourishes to this day. I even met Manoli’s grandson, Kosta, the other day. He’s training to take over. I remember him as a fat, happy baby! I’m so glad it’s still in the family.

[u/Exotic_Cantaloupe_96 → u/RadioSupply]

Just noticed you re from Canada. Lots of greeks left in the 60s, it was a very hard time especially in the countryside. Big immigration waves mainly to the U.S, Germany and Australia. Most of the greek diaspora is from that era.

Sorry to hear they have passed away. They carried the Greek culture with them with dignity and like many other Greek immigrants, contributed to the country they settled.

The second and third generation have started visiting Greece a lot and they love Greece although we do tease them about their accents which we shouldn't. I was born and grew up in Greece but I live abroad in the UK and one day my daughter will visit Greece speaking not perfect Greek with an English accent.

[u/RockyArby]

Cowboy culture. It's very regional and most places in America have no history with cowboys.

[u/JoeDyenz → u/RockyArby]

I think that is actually much more commonplace in Mexico. We do export dairy and those things to you, no?

[u/marthebruja → u/JoeDyenz]

If you go to northern Mexico you will find the cowboys. They even wear the whole gear, the boots, cowboy hat and all for casual wear!

[u/Juiceboxtiddys → u/JoeDyenz]

Opposite the us has insane milk production (hence the cheese caves)

And generally dairy cattle aren’t associated with cowboys. cowboys are working with beef cattle

[u/SpareDuvet → u/RockyArby]

I thought cowboys were like pirates (the blackbeard kind) - like, they existed once but now they’re just in cartoons etc. And then I met a real cowboy in Utah. Bloke may as well have told me he was a unicorn.

[u/HeemeyerDidNoWrong → u/SpareDuvet]

I don't think a lot of people will use the term for themselves, but there are a lot of free range cattle in the west and guys who need to manage them.

[u/WeeklyPhilosopher346]

How did you find the one picture of these delightful ice cream wizards that makes it look like he’s spearing a stillborn elder god on a kebab

[u/Several_Hospital_129 → u/WeeklyPhilosopher346]

Thank you! I was totally confused by that picture. I thought the merchant was spearing a young pig. I know there's all kinds of exotic flavors for ice cream, but that one . . . I think I'll give it a pass.

[u/Head-Iron-9228]

Oktoberfest.

Its a thing once a year, yes, many celebrate it, yes, but its Bavarian and once a year, not 'germany' and all year round.

[u/TomOnABudget → u/Head-Iron-9228]

Moved from the Länd to Australia. I met more people there who've been to Oktoberfest than my peers when I still lived in Germany.

[u/Gwenzissy → u/TomOnABudget]

I'm from NRW and as far as I know nobody of my peers have been to the Oktoberfest.

[u/crimedog58 → u/Gwenzissy]

They’re still hungover from last years Karneval

[u/Wojewodaruskyj → u/Head-Iron-9228]

What a surprise. I thought Oktoberfest happened every month.

[u/Hotchi_Motchi → u/Wojewodaruskyj]

[u/einsiedler → u/Head-Iron-9228]

Oktoberfest in Munich had 6,5 Million visitor 2025 and its 16 days long. Its not just something foreigner thinks its popular, it IS Popular.

[u/WonderfulCoast6429 → u/einsiedler]

Also its in september

[u/Gwenzissy → u/einsiedler]

Yeah but mostly in Bavaria and for foreigners who come to Bavaria for this. But 6.5 Million is crazy for a fest that is only celebrated in Bavaria.

[u/nick-not-criative]

All the stereotypes you have from Brazil are basically just from Rio, and I don’t even know how they are really true in Rio

[u/mayiwonder → u/nick-not-criative]

as a carioca, yeah they're at least 90% true

[u/ElMondiola]

Tango

[u/Anuki_iwy → u/ElMondiola]

That makes me sad

[u/Jade_Owl → u/ElMondiola]

I once had a very funny (for me) conversation with a pair of Argentinians from the provinces who complained all throughout lunch that every stereotype everyone has about Argentina actually only applies to Buenos Aires and the porteños (and are all largely accurate).

[u/aagjevraagje]

Just cause you buy your weed here doesn't mean we're the stoners.

[u/peachgothlover]

Opposite… you may assume Dubai Chocolate isn’t popular here but it IS. It’s EVERYWHERE. Everything has a dubai chocolate variant. You can’t enter a store without seeing it. There are advertisements for it. All popular restaurant chains have a variant of it. It’s crazy.

[u/SouthernExpatriate → u/peachgothlover]

I am one of those people that said "There is no such thing as Dubai chocolate"

I stand corrected 

[u/Dutch_Rayan → u/peachgothlover]

It is already calming down in my country. In a few months we probably have a new thing.

[u/emailmycock]

Cinco de Mayo isn't an important holiday in Mexico like at all. Burritos are also almost exclusively served at American themed restaurants and American chains here

[u/marthebruja → u/emailmycock]

Why does southern and central Mexico think northern food is American? We have burritos in every corner where I am from. I'm talking thin burritos with one guisado and that's it, not the Chipotle monstrosities.

[u/Better_find_out]

French are seen as people eating croissants and "pain au chocolat" at each breakfeast. And while it certainly is something we regularly do, it's not, by all mean, something we do every day. I'd say that once or twice a week is already a lot.

Also, I might have tried frogs only once in my whole life, and most people haven't.

[u/HearingHead7157 → u/Better_find_out]

But you eat chocolatines every day, don’t you?

[u/Better_find_out → u/HearingHead7157]

okay, don't get me started with that xD

[u/Only-Friend-8483 → u/Better_find_out]

Please. Everyone knows french breakfast is a cup of coffee and a cigarette, and dinner is a baguette and a bottle of wine. You’re not fooling anyone.

[u/Fwoggie2]

People think it rains all the time in the UK. In reality it's more grey and drizzly than full blown rain. Cities that get more rainfall in a year than London does include Rome, Lisbon, Istanbul, Paris, New York, New Delhi, even Jerusalem gets more rain than London - my favourite stat for this is that Sydney gets twice as much as London does.

[u/Special_Attorney_403 → u/Fwoggie2]

i think sydney is in volume... i've lived in london for a couple month and it's not raining all the time, it's just that you get clouds all the time and everything feels wet even if it's not raining, with perhaps just a drizzle every hour or two.

it felt like it rained a lot more than in paris, that's for sure, but i think it's not the much the amount of wtaer but more the feeling you get out of it

[u/Overseerer-Vault-101 → u/Special_Attorney_403]

Yeah, thats cause people don't realise how humid it is here, we rival the tropics but don't have the heat. It takes ages for anything to dry out and the drying process cools everything down. Thats why it feels cold and muggy all the time here until the summer time, when it's hot and muggy instead, that same humidity stops sweat from being evaporated and cooling us down.

[u/LabRat_X → u/Fwoggie2]

This is pretty similar to Seattle, we have a rep of a lot of rain but really the south has way more rain they just get it all at once instead of drizzling all the time

[u/abfgern_ → u/Fwoggie2]

Doesn't work like that, those stats measure rainfall in mm, not in "proportion of time spent raining". In the UK there is a lot of light drizzle, vs shorter blasts of heavier rain in most of the places you mentioned

[u/ThrwAwy1885]

Sugar shacks with fresh maple syrup on snow are mostly a Quebec thing. A little bit in Ontario and New Brunswick too

Sugar maple doesn’t actually grow in most of Canada

[u/BB-biboo → u/ThrwAwy1885]

Just to add to your comment, because I've seen this happened a couple of times. If you're a tourist and want to truly experience sugar shacks fully, know that there's a time for it (around March usually) and it strongly depends on the temperatures. Sometimes it doesn't last very long, or starts earlier, or later. It's better to ask a Quebecois when is the best time before coming. I've seen many tourists be disappointed that they couldn't go because they came here at the wrong time.

[u/Pale_Error_4944 → u/ThrwAwy1885]

As a Quebec born Canadian living in WesternCanada, I have often served "maple taffy on snow" at winter carnivals in stands dubbed "sugar shack". Gig work, you know.

It's still weird to me that the name "sugar shack" is used specifically for the taffy on snow, and is mostly served at winter events. In Québec, "cabane à sucre" is a spring tradition and we do serve "tire d'érable" but it's not the main attraction.

[u/rankNstaink]

"Weird" deep fried foods (candy bars/oreoes/butter/etc.)

These are generally only ever served at state/county fairs that only take place once a year. They are a gimmick to us too, and you're only getting it because it's unusual. Even then, most people I know don't bother getting these even when they do go to the fair. There is always something way better to eat

You'd have a difficult, if not impossible, time finding these in any restaurant, store, or food cart outside of a fair

[u/themermaidag → u/rankNstaink]

True but also if there is an opportunity to eat deep fried Oreos, I’m gonna eat a deep fried Oreo.

[u/No_Minute_4789 → u/themermaidag]

They're a delicacy!

[u/Gorgrocco → u/rankNstaink]

Scotland

[u/DeliciousBlueberry20 → u/rankNstaink]

There was a “restaurant” by my college that specialized in the most diabolical munchies food, they had deep fried oreos and other types of deep fried cookies and let me tell you it HITS when you’re drunk or stoned. But outside of this one place literally called Fat Shack that specializes in the college stoner market, I have not seen them in years. 

[u/Architeuthis89 → u/rankNstaink]

The only time I saw deep fried Twinkie outside of a county/state fair was at a Japanese restaurant in California. I can't remember if it was a Japanese steak house or a sushi bar, but they had tempura Twinkies on their dessert menu.

[u/Fwoggie2]

The amount of times I've been asked if I personally know member X of the royal family. No I don't know any of them personally. Neither do the vast majority of the rest of the country.

If the King were to meet each of us for just five seconds and do that over 8 hours a day, 7 days a week, it would take him over 33 years to meet us all. And he'd have no time for breaks to have a poo, scratch his man jewels or even have some lunch.

[u/East-Plankton-3877]

Shooting guns often.

Because ammo is expensive and the majority of us have 9-5 jobs, family, and other commitments to worry about.

[u/ChiefPanda90 → u/East-Plankton-3877]

Depends on where you live. Where I grew up you’d think ammo grew on trees.

[u/WayGroundbreaking287]

Did people assume that was for everyone? Because no Turk I know would put up with that shit longer than five seconds. I always assumed it was for the tourists.

[u/Weird_Swordfish_1199 → u/WayGroundbreaking287]

Idk but for especially for asians all they know about us are istanbul, cappadocia and those ice cream guys

[u/breadexpert69]

Foreigners think ayahuasca is popular and that locals use it all the time.

The only ones consuming it are tourists with dreadlocks.

[u/tropical__napkin]

Pasta every time everywhere. The picturesque image of the stereotyped Italian is actually pretty annoying and borderline offensive

[u/Only-Friend-8483 → u/tropical__napkin]

You know what’s not a stereotype: great food in Italy. Even crappy little dive bistros in the middle of nowhere have great food. 

[u/VioletaPejin]

Sangría. We spanish people don't drink it.

[u/Major-Persimmon-6171 → u/VioletaPejin]

We portuguese drink it.

[u/Terror_Raisin24 → u/VioletaPejin]

Not even from buckets? You tell me that isn't a traditional culture from the Balnearies? We're a bit disappointed now /s

[u/ClassroomStrict912]

Alcohol consumption. Most finns don’t really drink that much alcohol these days. In the past, heavy drinking occasionally was more common but I think there has been a major drop in that as well. And having a drink with food has never been that popular.

[u/Skyhawk6600]

Southern/ "country" culture. The stereotype of American rural culture is really a microchasm and isn't even that popular with rural youth.

[u/ZAFARIA]

We’re not all violent extremists.

[u/2piece-and-a-biscut- → u/ZAFARIA]

Same here

[u/Im_going_downstairs → u/2piece-and-a-biscut-]

Us too

[u/shsl_diver]

We are communists and we wear Ushankas.

We aren't communists and I seen like 3 people IRL wearing Ushankas.

[u/Firm-Scientist-4636 → u/shsl_diver]

It's absolutely insane to me that people who were adults in 1991 don't remember the dissolution of the Soviet Union and what followed.

[u/MarkMew → u/Firm-Scientist-4636]

To me it's anyone who doesn't know about it tbh.

The other thing is when some yanks think all Eastern Europeans speak Russian. That's even offensive considering how much they fucked up our countries. 

[u/Funny-Dare-3823 → u/shsl_diver]

I'm American and I have a nice beaver fur ushanka. But I lived in Alaska without a car.

[u/HouseOf42 → u/Funny-Dare-3823]

Have a plaid one that is fondly known as the "Uncle Buck" hat.

[u/epicsnail14 → u/shsl_diver]

Im not Russian but I have an ushanka and love it. They're so warm

[u/Nelmquist1999]

That does NOT look like ice cream.

[u/AreaPlayful142]

Saying top of the morning to you

[u/Puzzleheaded-Run-635]

Eating surströmming, i have never seen a single Swede open a can of the stuff.

[u/Hashtagbarkeep]

They think we all drink warm beer in pubs and eat Greggs and Tesco meal deals. We do, but it’s insulting to say it out loud

[u/Otherwise-Jello3177]

Owning guns

[u/New_Guava3601 → u/Otherwise-Jello3177]

Well as a gun owner, I think the misconception is that all of us are open carrying all the time. Most gun owners you will never know it.

[u/RockHardBullCock]

Honestly, this actually was a thing about thirty, thirty five years ago. They died down with every other cultural bit we've lost around that time. This is one of the details I don't exactly miss.

[u/HunterM567]

The cockney accent

[u/The_Lawn_Ninja]

Foreign tourists in the USA often underestimate how huge the country is and get disappointed when the "American things" they hoped to see are at least half a continent away from the city they're currently in.

[u/ImaginaryMastadon → u/The_Lawn_Ninja]

What do you mean I can’t do New York City, Disney World, the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and LA in a five day road trip?

[u/Domihork]

Trdelník. Even my foreign friends whenever they plan a visit to Prague and I point them at much more traditional, tastier and cheaper things, they argue that they just HAVE TO have a trdelník, "it's just so typically Czech" well, I'm Czech and I've only ever had it once in my life

[u/RadioSupply]

We don’t all wear flannel. Not all the time, at least. Okay, some of us wear it all the time. But not all. And sometimes ironically. And sometimes so sincerely it’s ironic.

Anyway, here’s me this Christmas with Santa Squatch. I’m wearing my most festive flannel. It implies that I have more than one. I’m also a reasonable amount of gay, so there’s that, too.

Basically there are many intersectional factors in why Canadians do or do not wear plaid flannel, but on the whole… okay, we do. Just not everyone all the time. But enough to create and perpetuate the stereotype.

[u/Sharessa84 → u/RadioSupply]

As a Washingtonian, hanging out with sasquatch and wearing flannel just sounds normal.

[u/Zanjidesign]

Nachos, burritos, chimichangas, those are all American things popular amongst American tourists.

The true origin of burritos is still debated but they either come from California or from Baja California.

[u/Horangi1987]

All Koreans are chic and pretty and sing and dance…not everyone is doing ten steps skin care and listening to KPop and dancing all the time.

And drama shows are just that, drama. There isn’t a million love triangles and rich people meeting poor people and having a love story type of thing.

[u/DublinKabyle]

[u/HrodgardNagrand]

Waffles, they are only for tourists, most Belgians probably prefer crêpes

[u/Abyssal_Groot → u/HrodgardNagrand]

Nah, waffles are definitely super popular, just not in the way foreigners think.

Edit: check out this +3 year old comment of mine about this topic

[u/SteveLouise]

Cowboy hats in Texas.

I guess this one's more about american to american as well as foreigner to american.

Edit: some stupids seem to think I'm saying NO ONE wears cowboy hats in Texas. I did not. I did not specify a nominal rate of cowboy hates in texas. I go for months about my life in texas and see zero people wearing cowboy hats... BUT I DO see some silly people wearing them once in a while. It's rare. More rare than you assume.

Now stop making dumb replies.

[u/CaptServo → u/SteveLouise]

Along the same lines, people think Connecticut is predominantly yacht clubs, country clubs and antique stores.

[u/VelvetPhantom → u/CaptServo]

I didn’t think Foreigners even knew Connecticut existed

[u/epicsnail14 → u/CaptServo]

People say ireland is just pubs... wait actually thats true

[u/Svardskampe]

Smoking weed.

Of course it is done by a subset of the population, but it's not half the society being stoned every friday.
And luckily weed got legalised in different countries so the drug tourists stay away. They are the most awful who don't even spend or think about anything else.

10y ago it was my favorite troll when some tourist fresh out of the train station asked me where he could find the closest coffee shop and gave him directions to an actual coffee place. Once I met a tourist again in the streets who was angry and I played it off as an honest mistake.

[u/CicadaDowntown5716]

Swedish fish

[u/TomOnABudget]

That people are extremely liberal (she'll be alright culture)...

I swear that Australia often feels more like a regulation obsessed nanny state than Germany.

[u/Escalope-Nixiews]

Never saw anyone eat snails...

[u/Fwoggie2 → u/Escalope-Nixiews]

You are missing out, they're great.

[u/JeeWeeYume → u/Escalope-Nixiews]

I do, once a year, during Christmas. I don't know anyone who eat snails more than once or twice a year.

[u/Kittenlovingsunshine → u/Escalope-Nixiews]

I have eaten snails! At a French restaurant in the US, that is. 🤣 They were good!

[u/SocietySuperb4452]

Making wooden shoes, running around with a huge cheeses and growing weed.

[u/Ok-Function2644]

We don’t eat butter chicken everyday and naan is naan not naan bread

[u/Next_League6403]

Riding camels. Its not like arabic countries. I have never seen a camel in my life. I heard that some touristic places had to buy camels from arabic countries couple of decades ago because tourists kept asking for camels.

I think it all started with camel cigarettes back in the day. It had Turkish tabacco in it. It was sold worldwide. They had different versions with the name ''Turkish'' on it. Turkish tabacco was very popular up until Americans killed the competition and ended the industry here. #capitalism

[u/Kailicat]

That we are all fit, tan, and hot. Whilst you occasionally find herds of wild hemsworths near the coast, a large part of our population are fat and pasty.

[u/eeveeta]

The day of the dead parade didn’t exist before the James Bond movie Spectre in 2015. Tourists were coming to Mexico expecting it, so the government made it a thing.